Brad Templeton wrote:
That's not true. Once a package reaches a certain user base size -- and I think mythtv has reached that size though I don't know for sure -- it develops a core of people who will indeed download and test a release candidate (but who won't compile from CVS.)
Among the most popular packages, like Mozilla, or Java, immense numbers of people download the release candidates -- what in the old days used to be called a beta but that term is being re-appopriated. Almost more than they need.
I would love to be able to easily put an RC on a box at my house and do some testing. I'm a QA guy during the day but not a C++ programmer so if I could contribute in that way that would be great. But with no release candidate or staging system, it's less productive to do QA since commits to CVS are coming fast and furious and you end up testing things over and over.
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